Unity Linux 20.1050a / 20.1060a / 20.1070a Security Update: iputils (UTSA-2025-992152)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 280085

Synopsis

The Unity Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2025-992152 advisory.

ping in iputils before 20250602 allows a denial of service (application error or incorrect data collection) via a crafted ICMP Echo Reply packet, because of a signed 64-bit integer overflow in timestamp multiplication.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Unity Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected iputils package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?04a5e205

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-47268

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-47268

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 280085

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-992152.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 12/27/2025

Updated: 12/27/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-47268

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/UOS-Server/release, Host/UOS-Server/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/27/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-47268